[Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist)

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Emily Martin's 'The Egg and the Sperm' is also a useful addition!


On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 09:58 -0500, William J. Moner wrote:
> Rich,
> 
> James Carey's essays might be of use, particularly this gem about the
> telegraph.
> http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Carey-TechnologyandIdeology.pdf
> 
> Also, you might consider Susan Douglas' Inventing American Broadcasting if
> you're interested in how the concept of the amateur collides with corporate
> and military interests in broadcast regulation.
> 
> Best,
> William
> 
> 
> -------------------------
> William J. Moner
> PhD Candidate, Media Studies, University of Texas at Austin
> wjmoner at utexas.edu || 512.666.4865 || @williamj
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Rich Ling <riseling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am trying to think of a readings list on technology and society. I want
> > to have a bit of a bias towards communication, but that it not the only
> > technology. I have put together the following list. The two areas that I
> > realize I don't have much on is steam technology (is there a book similar
> > to Eisenstein for steam?) and transport/automobilism.  These are mostly
> > books. Key articles are also of interest.
> >
> > My current list (starting with the older technologies) is as follows:
> >
> > ·      The Printing press as a agent of change, Eisenstein
> >
> > ·      Shaping the day, Glennie and Thrift
> >
> > ·      Latitude, Sobel
> >
> > ·      The Victorian internet, Standage
> >
> > ·      The Control Revolution, Beniger
> >
> > ·      Technics and civilization, Mumford
> >
> > ·      Electrifying America: Social meanings of a new technology, David Nye
> >
> > ·      When old technologies were new, Marvin
> >
> > ·      The social construction of technical systems, Bijker
> >
> > ·      America Calling, Fischer
> >
> > ·      Crabgrass Frontier, Jackson
> >
> > ·      Virtual communities, Rheingold
> >
> > ·      The rise of the network society, Castells
> >
> > ·      6 Degrees, Watts
> >
> > ·      Taken for grantedness (maybe New Tech, New Ties), Ling
> >
> > ·      Configuring the User as Everybody: Oudshoorn, Rommes, Stinestra
> >
> > ·      Sociology beyond societies, Urry
> >
> > ·      In the Age of the Smart Machine, Zuboff
> >
> > ·      Play between worlds, Taylor
> >
> > ·      Where the action is, Dourish
> >
> > --
> > Rich L.
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